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Steinberg, Amanda Hannoosh.

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Wives, Witches, and Warriors: Women in Arabic Popular Epic.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Wives, Witches, and Warriors: Women in Arabic Popular Epic./
Author:	Steinberg, Amanda Hannoosh.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	216 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-10A(E).
Subject:	Near Eastern studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10809311
ISBN:	9780438037250

Wives, Witches, and Warriors: Women in Arabic Popular Epic.
Steinberg, Amanda Hannoosh.

Wives, Witches, and Warriors: Women in Arabic Popular Epic. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 216 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2018.

This dissertation consolidates the known corpus of the medieval Arabic popular epic (sirah sha biyah) in order to examine the roles of its female characters and how they relate to power. Borrowing from feminist theory, the study takes as its organizing principle the categories of "power-over," "power-to," and "power-with," showing that how a woman is judged for expressing power depends upon how her actions fit into one of these three categories. Moreover, each expression of power tends to be connected to a woman's familial relationships: sexually available women are usually classified as expressing "power-over," while the nonsexual relationships of sisters and daughters exemplify "power-to." The character of the selfless mother represents the ultimate expression of "power-with." By comparing these characterizations to portrayals of women in religious, historical, and adab works also created during the Middle Periods of Islamic history, we can conclude that the modern perception of women being confined to the private sphere and thus invisible in medieval Arabic literary production is based on ignorance of their ubiquitous and complex roles in more popular forms of literature.

ISBN: 9780438037250Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122821
Near Eastern studies.

Wives, Witches, and Warriors: Women in Arabic Popular Epic.
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